Now IT professionals have their own social networking website where they can find great opportunities for career growth both for themselves as well as their peers. With the new site, IT professionals may share their knowledge and insights to other members of the technology community.
While existing social networking sites have become venues for business transactions and career opportunities, there is a general impression of being not "serious" enough.
Kovasys IT Recruitment introduces MontrealTech.net -- a new social networking site that is specifically designed to meet the needs of IT professionals. This new site will enable an IT professional to be equipped well in order to make the best career decisions. A user of the site may share articles, solve IT problems and keep up to date with the latest IT trends and events.
Although the new IT site will initially cater to Montreal and Toronto residents, the information will be useful for residents in other areas of Canada.
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Is it a sad commentary on life when many people report that their best friends are online connections - people they have never met? At one time I would have been shocked by this, but not anymore. When I have friends online that I have never met, that I talk to more than the real people around me every day, I just wonder how I changed so quickly.
What is it about the anonymity of the internet that has fostered this global connection that has significant importance in people lives? I have an internet friend that I am concerned about right now. We speak every day, rain or shine - it doesn't matter online. And not only do we speak every day, we speak several times a day. Yet I didn't hear from him yesterday…in fact, I have not heard from him since he sent me an email from a pub he was at on Friday night.
Do you have friends on the internet that you feel more close to than with you flesh and blood friends that you see all the time? What are your thoughts on this phenomenon? I would love to discus this further.
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As little as ten years ago we would have been correct if we considered social networking to mean going to an event and mingling with groups of like minded people in person. Today, that definition would not even be close. Social networking is still about meeting people, but not face to face. The internet is the intermediary behind all gatherings.
Groups of like minded individuals meet online on social networking sites that include Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo Groups, and hundreds more. On some social networking sites you can also enter real time 'chat' mode and be 'talking' to someone from the other side of the world in an instant.
Based on commonalities, these websites bring people together to discuss such things as hobbies, religion, politics, likes, dislikes, videos, poetry, and, technology. Social networking is the 21st century equivalent to pen pals - but now you have hundreds of pen pals just by joining several networking sites - and you don't have to wait a week to hear what they have to say.
While social networking has many positive factors, it also has its dark side. Since the medium allows users to be anonymous, some people use fake personas and act in a predatory manner towards the vulnerable. At the same time, there are many news reports of users alerting police of a medical or other emergency just by providing another users profile.
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Do you like the new like button that's covering the Internet on behalf of Facebook? Whether you like it or not, it seems to be reshaping the traffic patterns on the Web.
Installing Facebook's new like button will get you 50% more traffic from Facebook.
The like button has been part of Facebook for as long as I remember, but when you clicked it you were "liking" something else on Facebook. Then in April Mark Zuckerberg brought the like button to the rest of the web. And the impact has been interesting.
For starters, in the last few weeks people have learned to think of themselves as Facebook users all the time, not just when they're on Facebook. And then on top of that, the new like button gives the rest o fthe Web the ability to take advantage of perhaps the world's biggest marketing tool (word of mouth) on the world's largest platform...
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Which idiom do you think applies: "No news is good news" or "There's no such thing as bad press?" Personally, I'm beginning to think that the second idiom makes the most sense for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
People upset with Facebook's privacy issues staged a "quit Facebook" day on May 31. I saw one source that estimated that one of every fifteen thousand Facebook users deleted their account that day. To put that into perspective, that's 66 out of every million users. And with something close to 400 million users, Facebook might have lost a little more than 25,000 users. You and I both know that Facebook's astronomical growth rate over the last year means that they're replace those whiney people in about three or four days with completely new users. Plus the people who left probably weren't the sort of high traffic Facebook users that you and I are.
Call me a cynic, but I look for Facebook to draw the privacy issue out for as long as they can because it's free press.
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